/lit/ - Literature

>>9979903
>now that communism has failed does this book have any modern relevance?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: if you're interested in the history of western thought you need to read Marx in order to understand where a lot of 20th century thinkers drew their inspiration from, ultimately most of the post-Marxist intellectuals ended up in cul-de-sacs and many of took their own lives like Debord, paid with their lives for their lifestyles like Foucault or created conceptual currents that were either stillborn or infertile. For an analysis of modern politics reading Marx is entirely pointless unless you're studying popular social movements (read: fashionable idiocy).